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THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 4
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Christ’s ministers must be faithful—The apostles suffer, minister, keep the faith—The kingdom of God is not in word but in power.
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Let</span> a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Knowledge about; TG Mysteries of Godliness.">mysteries</a> of God.
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Moreover it is required in <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Delegation of Responsibility; TG Stewardship.">stewards</a>, that a man be found <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/4/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Trustworthiness.">faithful</a>.
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But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
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For I know nothing <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/4a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Cor. 4: 4  . . .  against myself  . . .">by</a> myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/4/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Judge.">judgeth</a> me is the Lord.
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Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 123: 13.">hidden</a> things of darkness, and will make <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/4/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Rom. 2: 16.">manifest</a> the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
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And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and <i>to</i> Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think <i>of men</i> above that which is written, that no one of you be <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/6a" mark="a" type="Q" title="GR proud, arrogant; D&C 38: 24.">puffed</a> up for one against another.
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For who maketh thee <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/7a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR different from, superior to.">to</a> differ <i>from another?</i>  and what hast thou that thou didst not <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/4/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 4: 19.">receive</a>?  now if thou didst receive <i>it,</i> why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received <i>it?</i>
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Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
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For I think that God hath set forth us the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/9a" mark="a" type="Q" title="GR last apostles; Rom. 1: 1; 1 Ne. 11: 34 (33-34).">apostles</a> last, as it were <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/4/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 42: 48.">appointed</a> to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
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We <i>are</i> fools for Christ’s sake, but ye <i>are</i> wise in Christ; we <i>are</i> weak, but ye <i>are</i> strong; ye <i>are</i> honourable, but we <i>are</i> despised.
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Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/11a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR roughly treated, afflicted.">buffeted</a>, and have no certain dwellingplace;
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Labor.">labour</a>, working with our <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/4/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Self-sacrifice.">own</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/4/12c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 38: 40.">hands</a>: being <sup>d</sup><a href="1_cor/4/12d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Malice; TG Reviling.">reviled</a>, we bless; being <sup>e</sup><a href="1_cor/4/12e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Persecution.">persecuted</a>, we <sup>f</sup><a href="1_cor/4/12f" mark="f" type="P" title="GR endure patiently.">suffer</a> it:
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Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, <i>and are</i> the offscouring of all things unto this day.
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I write not these things to <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Shame.">shame</a> you, but as my beloved <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/4/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Thes. 2: 11.">sons</a> I <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/4/14c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Warnings.">warn</a> <i>you.</i>
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For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet <i>have ye</i> not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Gospel.">gospel</a>.
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Wherefore I beseech you, be ye <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/16a" mark="a" type="Q" title="GR imitators; 1 Cor. 11: 1.">followers</a> of me.
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For this cause have I sent unto you <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 16: 1; 1 Tim. 1: 2.">Timotheus</a>, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
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Now some are <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of the Early Christian Church.">puffed</a> up, as though I would not come to you.
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But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
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For the kingdom of God <i>is</i> not in word, but in <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/20a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Cor. 1: 18 (17-18); D&C 18: 47; D&C 42: 14; TG Priesthood, Power of.">power</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/4/21a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Which do you choose?.">What</a> will ye?  shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and <i>in</i> the spirit of <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/4/21b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR gentleness, kindness.">meekness</a>?
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